Artist Name: Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad
1740 Kenilworth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3R2S5 Telephone:514 895-2386 Email:hodamontrealwenger@hotmail.com Website:www.hodaackad.com

Based in Montreal, Canada, Ackad’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States, as well as in Montreal and internationally. Her works “Rasta at the Beach” and “The Eye of Gradimir”, were featured on a billboard in central Los Angeles as part of The Billboard Creatives project. Most recently, her portrait”Gradimir Pankov”portrait was featured in a tribute video, and with other portraits in an exhibition at Place Des Arts as part of a tribute to Gradimir Pankov, now artistic director emeritus of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
Ackad’s works have garnered awards internationally, and been exhibited at museums and galleries including Texarcana Regional Arts and Humanities Council in Texas where her work ”Portrait of My Son” recently won Best of Show Award.,Site-Brooklyn Gallery in NYC; The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, New Jersey; Dab Art Gallery in Ventura, California; Alexandria Museum of Art, in Alexandria, Louisiana;Brownsville Museum of art in Texas, Hopkins Center for the Arts, in Minneapolis, MN; and the Viridian Artists Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, where Ackad’s work “Read My Lips 2” was selected by Susan Thompson, Associate Curator at the Guggenheim in NYC.
In 2015 Ackad was also selected to participate in the Help Hope Nepal Mural Project Open Juried Exhibition during Art Basel Week in Miami, FL. Selected Group Exibitions
2019 TRAHC Texarkana Regional Arts& Humanities Council, Texas,USA 2019 Viridian Artists Inc. Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
2019 AMOA, Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana, USA
2019 Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2019 ISEA, International Symposium for Experimental Artists, virtual exhibition, USA 2019 The Hopkins Center for the Arts, Minneapolis USA
2018 The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, New Jersey,USA
2018 Site Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York , USA
2018 Dab Art virtual exhibition, Ventura California,USA
2018 Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana, USA
2018 Lessedra Gallery, Bulgaria
2018 American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, USA
2018 Hopkins Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, USA
2017 ISEA(International Symposium for Experimental Artists)Sanibel, Florida, USA 2017Tieton Arts &Humanities , Mighty Tieton, Tieton, Washington. USA
2017 Viridian Artists Inc Gallery, Chelsea, New York,USA
2016 Brownsville Museum ,Texas
2017 Arts in Harmony. Elk River Arts Alliance, Minneapolis, USA
2016 The Billboard Creatives 2017 Exhibition, Los Angeles, California
2016 The Center for Contemporary Art 2016 International Exhibition, Bedminster, NJ 2016 Blaine Traveling Show, Blaine City Hall, Minneapolis, USA
2014 The 2014 Dab Art Show, Hud gallery, Ventura, California
2014 Real People, The Old Court House, (NAAC), Woodstock, Illinois
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Place des Arts, Theatre Maisonneuve Montreal, Canada 2016 Gallery Luz , Montreal Quebec, Canada
2013, EK Voland Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
2009 Corrid’Art de la Compagnie F. Montreal, Canada
Awards
2020 Best of Show Award, TRAHC, Texarcana Arts &Humanities Council
2020 1st place Award, ISEA ,International Symposium for Experimental Art, virtual,USA 2019 3rd place Award, ISEA ,International Symposium for Experimental Art, virtual ,USA 2018 4rth place Award, pastel category, Arts in Harmony,Minneapolis
2017, Merit Award, ISEA, International Symposium for Experimental Art, Sanibel,Florida
2017 2nd place Award, pastel category, Brownsville Museum, Texas
2016 Bronze Award “ Dialogue with Myself “ Art Forward International Competition www.artforwardcontests.com/

Catalogues/Media/TV reviews/Youtube
2020 TRAHC Award Ceremony#https//www.facebook.com/trahc/videos/ 739565253286818/
2020SouthBay Live southbaylive.net/arts-music
2018 Click_Bait for Dab Art Catalogue & first quarterly journal
2018 Montreal Art Openings hodaackad@galleryLuz July 5 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSRRgocRDcc
2017The Montrealer, November issue article by Dorota Kosinska
2016 Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billboard_Creative
2016 LAweeklyhttps://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/keep-an-eye-out-for-these-art...
2016 CJN (Canadian Jewish News) March 24, 2016 article by Heather Solomon, Art
2016 Calaméo – Touristica 81 Magazine http://www.calameo.com/read/
00072269181531833fe22 pages 158-159
www.thesuburban.com/.../hoda-ackad.../article_305625da-da8f-11e5-8c... ratsdeville: HODA ACKAD @ luz
ratsdeville.typepad.com/.../2016/.../hoda-ackad-luz.ht.. Quartier des spectacles
www.quartierdesspectacles.com/en/activity/8522/symmetryasymmetry
2015The Suburban:
 http://www.thesuburban.com/article.php?id=5170&title=Larger-Than-Life Cult Newspaper:
http://cultmontreal.com/2015/07/art-this-week-41/
Calaméo – Touristica 81 pages 110/111 www.calameo.com/books/0007226911e2cec266cf4
La Metropole: http://www.samyrabbat.com/roger-huet/le-pouvoir-a-larriere-scene- une- fascinante-exposition-de-portraits.html
2013 Breakfast Television: http://www.btmontreal.ca/videos/2750426208001/
Concordia University magazine page 55
Education:
2001 BFA, painting, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

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